Shedding light on food security
for underpriviledged students
Jose Chavira

lege,” McLeary said.
Bonds defined food insecurity
as “a lack of consistent availabilTwo students are working to es- ity and access to food due to fitablish a food pantry on campus to nancial hardships.”
provide nonperishable food items
“We want to increase the sucand toiletries to members of the cess of all students and help
N.C. State community in need.
support struggling faculty and
Monique McLeary, a junior in staff,” Bonds said.
biological sciences, and Monique
The focus of this initiative is
Bonds, a junior in nutrition sci- focused on combating hunger
ence, have named
solely on N.C.
the project Feed the
State’s campus.
Pack. They say they
“We believe
began working on it
that food inafter they became
secu r it y is a
aware of the need
global issue, and
for such an organithe N.C. State
Monique McLeary, junior in
biological sciences
zation on campus.
community is
McLeary said the
not immune,”
movement was a collaborative ef- Bonds said. “There is a lack of
fort.
food assistance services on cam“This was inspired by the merging pus and, therefore, this initiative
of energies from staff, faculty and is a solution to the problem.”
students who were eager to address
Feed the Pack is currently
the food insecurity they were seeing working with a number of Union our campus,” McLeary said.
versity organizations, includMcLeary said members of the ing CSLEPS, Student GovernN.C. State community in extreme ment, the Counseling Center,
economic difficulty may not be able the Women’s Center, Greek Life
to afford healthy food. She said Feed and Housing. The food pantry
the Pack would give those people a will headquartered in 379 Harplace to turn.
“Eating is a basic right, not a priviFEED continued page 2
Correspondent

“Eating is a
basic right, not a
privilege.”

Solar pavilion
illuminated to life
Laura Wilkinson

ergy Management, the Phillips
Foundation, Progress Energy,
SAS and the Wolfpack EnviTwo years after a group of envi- ronmental Student Association
ronmental technology majors won to help fund the project.
the Think Outside the Brick comKichak said the company Solar
petition, its idea of a solar pavilion World donated three brand-new
will be realized.
solar panels that were more powIn 2010, students Sonum Nerur- erful than originally planned for,
kar, Eliza Jones, Bryan Maxwell and Facilities created a customand Zach Schnell received $1,000 to made enclosure to match the enimplement their solar panel project. vironment around the residence
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to open halls.
the pavilion to the public will be
“I don’t think that students
held Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. between have ever been this involved in
Syme, Gold and Welch residence a project and had as much inhalls.
put, joint with faculty at N.C.
A n e nc l o s u re
State, in t he
between the three
history of the
residence halls has
school,” Kichak
three brand-new
said. “You don’t
solar panels on the
rea l i ze how
roof that send enmuch work
ergy down to two
goes into these
out lets, or four
small projects
plugs, that memon campus; we
bers of the N.C.
don’t rea l i ze
Sonum Nerurkar,
State community
how many peoco-president of Wolfpack
can use to power
ple have their
Environmental Student
their electronics
hands on any
Associaiton
outside.
project at any
I s a ac K ic h a k,
given time.”
a senior in chemical engineering
The solar panels should last for
and the project developer, said the 15-20 years, though the electrical
members of the development team equipment used to convert the
quickly realized the original $1,000 energy won’t last quite as long,
allotted wouldn’t be nearly enough according to Kichak. Students
to fund the project.
For Solar is in charge of keeping
The group decided to fundraise money set aside from fundraisand offer donors a tax write-off, ing to pay for repairs.
but that was not possible unless the
The panels are 225 watts each,
group was a nonprofit organiza- though they will produce a total
tion. With that in mind, Students of 550 watts total after converFor Solar was created as a club and sion inefficiencies are accounted
nonprofit to handle the fundraising,
allowing donors like Southern EnSOLAR continued page 2
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with a mission

In Raleigh, the same philosophy
that brings people to the “farm to
fork” movement is attracting people
to seek a radio community beyond
the public or college level, according to Kelly Reid, an alumna of N.C.
State.
After graduating from N.C. State
at the height of the recession, Kelly
Reid and Jacob Downey soon realized that many people craved connections and a community like the
one they developed while working
at radio station WKNC, 88.1 FM.
In order to create such a community, Reid and Downey worked together to help found the early stages
of a place where Raleigh citizens can
connect with the help of low-power
FM radio.
The pair hopes through the project, called Little Raleigh Radio, listeners will be able to not only hear
what Raleigh is all about, but also
be able to contribute.
“When you think about radio
stations, it’s a question of what are

you connecting people to,” Downey and radio broadcast, the pair also
said. “I loved the connections that hopes to create a storefront office
I made through volunteering at for the radio. According to Downey,
WKNC, and I wanted to be able this aspect of the pair’s plan is repto start making those connections resentative of their overarching viwhere I lived.”
sion for an open source policy radio
Reid and Downey plan to release community.
Little Raleigh Radio on the internet
“We want people to see the radio
in late October with a radio broad- being made, see what’s being made
cast hopefully foland be empowered
lowing next year.
to make it themWith less than $900
selves,” Dow ney
left before reaching LITTLERALEIGHRADIO.ORG
said. “We want to
their $10,000 goal “CURATE AND HOST”
remind the DJs that
YOUR CONTENT
on Kickstarter, the
the whole point of
duo’s dream of a
having the window
studio for their stream and broad- is to say, ‘you’re looking out at your
cast may soon be realized.
city and when people are walking
“The more specialized we get as a by the window, they are looking out
society, there’s a danger of becom- at the radio station.’ That, at least
ing isolated,” Downey said. “If we for me, is what makes that idea so
can get people [to talk] to each other beautiful.”
and, more importantly, listening,
Unlike public radio and college
then to me, that’s where community radio, Downey and Reid say Little
comes from. Radio is just perfect for Raleigh Radio is geared to produce
that.”
In addition to the internet streams
RADIO continued page 2

In July, N.C. State’s Plants for
Human Health Institute, PHHI,
located in Kannapolis, hosted a pair
of Bhutanese scientists who assisted
the team with research on various
healthy plant compounds.
Chencho Dorji and Mani Prasad
Nirola visited the institute in order
to work hand-in-hand with Mary
Ann Lila, director of PHHI, and to
gain essential experience using the
equipment they will one day bring
to their labs in Bhutan.
Lila’s first trip to South Asia four
years ago successfully broke a barrier barring Western medical research
from Bhutan, she said. Scientific collaboration continues to grow, and
for Lila, having Dorji and Nirola
visit was a significant leap in the
right direction.
“Until 2008, the Bhutanese government didn’t allow Western scien-

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Raleigh, with
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See page 6.

tists to do research within the borders at all,” Lila said. “All because
[Bhutan] was consistently forced to
give up the knowledge and resources
produced by its own scientists.”
The institute’s goal of global scientific sustainability and its opposition to conventional pharmaceutical
therapies convinced both the Bhutanese Ministry of Health and the
Ministry of Science, as well as the
Bhutanese prince, that PHHI was
worth a shot.
“Our original objective was to
make friends,” Lila said. “After
hearing from us, the leaders were
more than willing to explore the
program. They were more enthusiastic than we ever hoped for.”
The Bhutanese government’s
enthusiasm came from PHHI’s focus on a field of study called bioexploration. Bioexploration is the
search for, and discovery of compounds in plants that could potentially benefit human health.

The concept of bioexploration
involves providing technology and
resources for a developing country
rather than taking it away. PHHI
supplies all the necessary equipment for researching compounds in
plants native to a certain area and
trains local scientists to use them.
It’s important, according to Lila,
that the scientists are given ownership of their own discoveries.
Most recently, the research team
has found cancer-fighting components in blueberries, and antimalarial compounds in a kind of Alaskan algae.
“We hope to take these discoveries
and apply them to the public arena,”
Lila said of the work Dorji and Nirola conducted.
According to Lila, the fresh perspective from international scholars has helped further PHHI’s research. In addition to Bhutan, the

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Wolfline extends to Cameron Village
Jessie Halpern
News Editor

CONTRIBUTED BY THE PLANTS FOR HUMAN HEALTH INSTITUTE

BHUTAN
continued from page 1

team at PHHI has extended
a hand to 17 other countries
around the world and is already planning another outreach project in November
to Bolivia and Chile.
PHHI’s existence and
programs are f inanced
largely by the endowment
given in 2008 by David
Murdock, owner of Dole
Foods Company, Inc., who
saw the potential benefits of a
partnership. In coming years,
the total donation will reach
about $1.5 million—on one
condition.
“Mr. Murdock financed the
building, landscaping and
technological half,” Lila said.
“He asked N.C. State to match
that number by funding the
human resources portion.”
Since then, PHHI has established partnerships with
many corporations, all of
which are striving to improve
the quality of human health.
In addition to corporate partnerships, faculty from eight
different universities have
come together to work on
PHHI’s innovative projects.
“It’s rare that you see people
from Duke, N.C. State and
UNC-Chapel Hill working
together,” Lila said. “Any-

BEHIND THE
RESEARCH:
MARY ANN LILA’S RESEARCH
FOCUSES ON IDENTIFYING
BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,
ESPECIALLY IN CERTAIN
BERRIES. SHE IS PARTICULARLY
INTERESTED IN FOODS THAT
APPEAR TO HELP FIGHT
CHRONIC DISEASES AND
ENHANCE ENDURANCE. LILA
WON A FULBRIGHT SENIOR
SCHOLARSHIP IN 1999 TO
CONDUCT RESEARCH IN NEW
ZEALAND.

SOURCE: PHHI

where else it’s all about rivalry.”
PHHI will continue to focus on spreading knowledge
of science and technology as
it relates to nutrition. The
work conducted by Dorji and
Nirola on the antimalarial
algae will be the institute’s
primary goal in the coming months. To Lila and the
team at PHHI, collaboration
is the key to advancing human health.
“You’ve really just got to listen to one another,” Lila said.
“Whether it’s an international friendship, or a colleague
from down the road, you
have to keep an open mind
and ear at all times. Someone might know something
you don’t—something that
could change the way we see
the world.”

Hillsborough Street
may be the place to go
for a quick bite between
classes, but when it comes
to groceries, shopping and
dining, Cameron Village
has it all. Now, a new stop
on the Wolfline is getting
students, faculty and staff
there for free.
The Wolfline began service to Cameron Village
Aug. 1 using the venue’s
existing stops on Cameron and Clark streets. Pat
Hunnell, public relations
counsel for Cameron Village, said this strengthens
the relationship the shopping center already has
with N.C. State.
“We’re really excited to

put this link between Cam- or even those who just don’t
eron Village and the Uni- want to give up their parking
versity,” Hunnell said. “We spot,” Hunnell said.
already have
Hunnell
such a great
said the new
relationstop will alship w it h
low students,
N.C. State,
faculty and
but this will
staff to head
connect us
over to Camphysically.”
eron Village
Hunnell
for lunch or
said Ly nne
fulfill their
Worth,
wardrobe
Pat Hunnell, public relations
Cameron
and grocery
counsel for Cameron Village
Village’s vice
needs easier.
president of
“We have
leasing, was the prime mover a lot of University people who
behind the change. Hunnell walk, but this means they
said Worth has worked hard won’t be limited by weather,”
to create a friendship between Hunnell said.
Cameron Village and N.C.
While Hunnell said use of
State.
the new stops has been rela“This will make it easier for tively light since they began,
people who don’t have cars– Hunnell attributed the lack

“Our merchants
are great
supporters of
N.C. State and
the faculty.”

FEED

continued from page 1

TYLER ANDREWS/TECHNICIAN

Sophomore in aggricultural business management Thomas
Page loads bags of food into a truck in the Brickyard on
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. The efforts were part of a canned
food drive that took place as an event during homecoming
week.

RADIO

ideas, Little Raleigh Radio is
prepared to bring in the comcontinued from page 1
munity to “curate and host”
what it cares about. For the
a more unique experience for pair, this open-source philisteners. For Reid, Little Ra- losophy is what is at the core
leigh Radio will capture more of the natural and dynamic
intimately what she feels Ra- community that it hopes to
leigh sounds
organize.
like.
If ever y“Makthing goes
ing radio
smoothly,
hyper-local
The radio station needs support R e i d a n d
is becoming and has reached 87 percent of its Downey
m o r e a n d $10,00 goal on kickstarter.com h o p e t o
more imporshare the intant because so much of the terests, music and more inmedia that we are exposed timate nonfiction pieces of
to, whether it’s Pandora or Raleigh citizens that larger
whether it’s WKNC, is not media organizations can’t
organic and is not local,” cover.
Reid said. “Pandora is an alReid and Downey have asgorithm. WKNC is service sembled a team of about 25
records by major promoters volunteers and held its first
in the United States that pro- general interest meeting at
mote the same catalog.”
King’s Barcarde Aug. 17.
According to Reid, in the The pair continues to release
same way that a museum is more information about their
a public place where people project at littleraleighradio.
come and have a unique ex- org.
perience interacting with

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August 27, 2012
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relson Hall. It’s set to open
later this fall.
“We would also like readers
to know that this initiative is
very receptive to any help we
can get,” McLeary said.
Feed the Pack welcomes
volunteers, donations and
the sharing of ideas.
The first big event for this
initiative was a food drive
during Packapalooza Saturday, where students collected
donations of nonperishable
food items.

SOLAR

continued from page 1

for.
“We made it to power
three laptops for six
hours a day for four days
straight without any sunlight,” Kichak said, noting there should never be
more than four days without sufficient sunlight.
Jones, one of the original creators of the project,
said the idea was born at
a Wolfpack Environmental Student Association
meeting about the Think
Outside the Brick competition.
“We all felt that solar energy is something that can
really change the way N.C.
State generates electricity,
and it can really help our
consumption of electricity,” Jones said.
Nerurkar, another of the
original creators, said she
wanted students to understand they can make a
difference.

of traffic to the summer and
said she hopes the start of the
school year will bring people
out.
To promote the stop, Cameron Village is using a YouTube video featuring N.C.
State students who have
“moved” to Cameron Village
to avoid the long walk from
campus.
In addition, a social media
campaign encourages people
to “like” the Cameron Village
page on Facebook and enter
to win a $500 gift card that
can be used at any Village
shop or vendor.
“Our merchants are great
supporters of N.C. State and
the faculty, they are really excited and welcoming of this
addition,” Hunnell said.

A student organization to
manage Feed the Pack and
sustain it once it’s up and
running is currently in the
works. Students and other
campus community members interested in finding
out more about this initiative may visit Feed the Pack’s
Facebook page at facebook.
com/FeedThePackPantry or
email the group at feedthepackpantry@gmail.com
“With inadequate finances,
inadequate food supply is
not far behind,” Bonds said.
“This initiative will contribute to the betterment of campus food insecurity.”

OUTSIDE THE BRICK:
THE UNIVERSITY’S SUSTAINABILITY
COMMISSION OF STUDENT
GOVERNMENT HOSTED THE
THINK OUTSIDE THE BRICK
COMPETITION.STUDENTS
SUBMITTED A PROJECT PROPOSAL
TO A PANEL OF UNIVERSITY
STAFF MEMBERS, STUDENT
SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS AND
THE STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT.
SOURCE: STUDENT GOVERNMENT

“Alternative energy is a big
deal and a big issue, not just
with universities and students, but also on a national
level,” Nerurkar said. “We
want students to learn from
seeing other initiatives students have started.”
Hannah Osborne, a junior
in history and vice chair of
the Sustainability Commission for Student Government,
said she was excited to see the
group’s hard work come to
fruition.
“We’re so excited for the
completion of the solar pavilion, and we feel confident
that it will serve as a visible
landmark of sustainability
for the Wolfpack nation,”
Osborne said.

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W

Ask a professor

e all have our
f a nt a s ie s i n
life. Mine (at
least the PG one) happens to
be writing
a n adv ice
column.
I’ve been a
voracious
consumer
of a d v ic e
columns
Steven
for 30 years
Greene
or so, startAssociate
professor
ing with the
venerable
Dear Abby and Ann Landers.
I’ve regularly followed
dozens of advice columns
through the years since and
often thought, “I could do
that.” What I really wanted,
though, was to have some
particular expertise to share.
Recently it hit me: I do. When
I think about all my conversations with students through
the years regarding my courses, advising or just how this
university actuallyworks,
there’s a lot that I know
that you don’t and maybe
are afraid to ask a professor
whom you actually know. So,
here you go—ask me!
You should probably know
a little bit more about me if
you’re going to ask me for

advice. I went to Duke as an undergraduate programs
undergrad. (Don’t hate! I re- for political science, which
ally pull for the Pack, too!) means I’ve really gotten to
I went to Ohio State for my see the seedy underbelly of
Ph.D. Before teaching here, N.C. State bureaucracy (the
I taught at Texas Tech, and horror, the horror!). Since I
Oberlin. So, I know big and have tenure, I can actually
small, public and private. I say what I think of most evgrew up in northern Virginia erything and not worry about
and have lived in Cary since I getting fired for it. And as for
moved to State along with my ruffling the feathers of some
wife and four
colleagues—
kids. (They
I’ve ne ver
really don’t
been partictake a lot of ASKAPROFNCSU@GMAIL.COM
ularly afraid
time, so I’m
of that eialways lookther.
ing for extra stuff to do, like
With “Ask a professor,” I
newspaper advice columns.) want to use my unique knowlAt State, I am a political sci- edge as a professor—10 years
ence professor, and I teach all at N.C. State, 13 total—to anvariations of American Gov- swer your questions about acernment. Most of the stu- ademics, University life, how
dents I encounter think I’m things here “really” work or
reasonably good at it. (Even if whatever else you want. Heck,
you are not a political science after reading thousands of
major, I want you in my In- advice columns in my life,
tro to American Government I’m feeling pretty confident
class—it’s a GEP course.) I about solving your relationalso mentor graduate stu- ship or roommate problems,
dents in their own teaching. too. So have at it. I cannot
I am the academic adviser promise my answer will make
for about 40 political science you laugh (though, I’ll try my
majors each semester—and darndest), but I can promise
if there’s anywhere you learn you honesty (that’s what the
this university’s dysfunctions, tenure is for). So, send me
it’s advising. For the past few an email at askaprofncsu@
years I’ve been director of gmail.com.

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I

n terms of entertainment and just
pure fun, Packapalooza was easily one
of the most memorable
events N.C. State has
ever hosted. It was right
up there with Ludacris’
concert at Reynolds in
the fall of 2010.
Upperclassmen who
attended the event were
asking “Why haven’t we
done this before?” As for
freshmen, Packapalooza
set a high–perhaps impossibly high–bar for future campus-wide events.
But when you consider
the success of this event,
the anniversary it is meant
to mark seems arbitrary.
What is the significance of
125? Don’t get us wrong,
we love this university,
and 125 years is a birthday
worth celebrating. But
shouldn’t we–current and
past students and faculty,
along with the surrounding community–celebrate
N.C. State every year?
The University is no
doubt hoping for a successful fundraising campaign as part of the 125th

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{OUR VIEW}
anniversary celebration. That
being said, alumni only give
when they feel a strong connection to their university.
More than 30,000 people
visited Packapalooza. Undergrads (of all years), graduate
students, alumni, faculty
and members of the community came to recognize N.C.
State a nd
its achievements. But
all along, its
organizers
have warned
u s not to
expect a celebration on
t his sca le
again in the
near future. It’s almost as if
all the good stuff was saved
up for the big 125. But isn’t
126 bigger than 125? We can’t
let increments of 25 govern
the appropriateness of a celebration.
Packapalooza was a success
because it brought the N.C.
State community together
even as it strengthened our
bonds with the community
beyond our campus’ borders.
So why aren’t we doing this
every year? Perhaps future

Packapaloozas could be a bit
more modest in scale, but
what would it hurt to really
give the students something
worth remembering (and
something to look forward
to) every year? If we did that,
perhaps when today’s students leave this fine institution to make their fortunes
in the world,
t he y ’ l l re member N.C.
State when
they deposit
their fat paychecks.
Hats off to
all of the organizations
planning
Packapalooza, namely UAB
and Student Government. It
was fitting of one of the nation’s best universities, and
we’re glad the weather cooperated just long enough
for them to pull it off in such
stylish fashion.
Speaking of weather, perhaps the sweetest part of
Packapalooza came after
Hillsborough had cleared—
UNC-Chapel Hill’s FallFest
was cancelled Monday due
to rain.

“We can’t let
increments of
25 govern the
appropriateness
of a celebration.”

{LAUREN’S VIEW}
Tales of a
concert junkie

I

t’s a quiet Sunday night
and I am sitting at
home listening to the
latest swoon-worthy masterpiece that Jason Mraz has introduced to men and women
worldwide.
I hear
h i s de l ic ate , ye t
dramatic
voice croon
through
my headLauren
phones, the
Noriega
soft, yet inStaff Columnist
tricate guitar work serenading my ears
and heart alike. I am listening along, but I am desperately wishing that I could be
at the concert to experience
this performance firsthand,
though, and not through my
current iTunes playlist.
I don’t mean to paint the
picture that I am the world’s
biggest Mraz Maniac (or
whatever the members of his
fan club call themselves), but
there is one thing that I will
always be a fanatic about: live
music.
T h roug hout my h ig h
school days, I spent the majority of my weekends at local music venues listening
to my favorite bands play.
The hours that my friends
and I used to spend waiting outside the music halls
of uptown Charlotte just to
secure the coveted front-row
general-admission spots were
numerous.
My obsession with concert
culture has since escalated to
the point where I have found
myself traipsing around
countries where I don’t even
speak the native tongue just
to hear the musical stylings of
artists like Stevie Wonder and
Bruce Springsteen and the E
Street Band perform. Some

might say my obsession has
gotten a tad out of control,
but there is just no stopping
me and my love of concerts.
You might just wonder what
exactly is so special about going to concerts. I’ve heard all
the complaints: The music is
too loud, the artist doesn’t
sound exactly like they do
on the record, the venues are
too hot and crowded, and so
on. But here is my defense:
There is absolutely nothing
better than seeing your favorite band playing one of
your favorite songs in person,
right in front of you. There
is nothing more beautiful
than hearing the emotion in
their voice firsthand. There
is nothing that could possibly compare to hearing the
hidden meanings and stories behind each and every
song. You suddenly feel like
you are part of the song, as if
you were there for the entire
songwriting process.
There is nothing more exhilarating than being able to
dance and sing along with
some of your go-to concert
buddies, especially if these
people are friends you’ve
acquired through the music
scene. There is just nothing
like it, at least to me. Nothing beats that adrenaline
rush, that undeniable high
that you feel throughout the
set list, nothing at all.
That’s why I’ve already seen
80 concerts in my lifetime,
and it’s why I hope to pass
the 100-concert mark before
I graduate in May. So if you
would ever like to participate
in the splendor and excitement of live music, look no
further. I’m your girl.
Send Lauren your thoughts
to letters@technicianonline.
com.

learned how to
ride a bicycle
this summer.”
I said in response to one
of those get-to-know-you
questions
Anna Betts posed on
Guest Columnist t he ﬁrst
day of class. When fielding
such questions in the past,
I’ve routinely said that I’m
left-handed, but this year
I have some new ammo.
Learning to ride a bicycle is a huge rite of passage when you’re a kid. It’s
like that scene in Forrest
Gump when his leg braces
fall off as he’s running. It
takes traveling under one’s
own power to the next
level.
It didn’t happen like
that for me. Don’t get me
wrong, my mom tried to
teach me. I have a vague
memory of biking around
a parking lot without
training wheels. It was
during this brief spell of

two-wheeled freedom that
the unimaginable happened–
I fell. I didn’t fall off into a pit
of snakes or run over a puppy
dog, I just tipped over. I doubt
I even felt anything through
the ridiculous amount of protective clothing I was wearing, but nevertheless I fell off.
For a perfectionist,
something
like this was
crushing.
I’m the type
of p e r s on
who wants
to be t he
best at everything I do, and I want to
be like that right away. This
makes things like riding a
bike quite difficult because
it’s learned through trial and
error.
So instead of getting back
on my bike and trying again, I
quit. I quit because I resented
the bike for not being easier
to ride. I was angry at myself

for not being able to do it. It
would be 13 years before I
touched a bike again. It wasn’t
too bad, though. I grew up
on a horse farm down a halfmile-long gravel road that’s
about seven miles outside
of town, so any friends who
came to visit had to come by
car.
Family and
friends have
of fered to
teach me at
various times
over the years,
but I always
r e f u s e d . It
wasn’t until
a beach trip this May that I
finally got back on a bicycle.
It took me about 45 minutes
and a few pushes from my
patient boyfriend before I
was off! It was just me and
my rusty red beach cruiser
traveling around the quiet,
ﬂat neighborhood.
I felt like the adorable little
boy in the “Thumbs Up for

“I quit because I
resented the bike
for not being
easier to ride.”

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empty streets, occasionally
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I told my classmates about
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not only because it’s uncommon for a 21 year old to be
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That’s all in the past now.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

TECHNICIAN

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 • PAGE 5

A new season of televised
entertainment begins
STORY BY LAUREN VANDERVEEN

T

he return of the fall means back to school, upcoming elections and, of course, the final film of the
Twilight saga. It also means a new line-up of shows coming to our television screens, and whether
you’re interested in comedy, drama, or the post-apocalypse, there should be something for everyone
this season.

Revolution
Network: NBC
Premiere: Sept. 17, 10 p.m.

E

xecutive produced by J. J. Abrams (Lost,
Fringe), Revolution has quickly become one
of the most anticipated shows of the season.
This dystopian drama picks up 15 years after
the earth suddenly loses all power. Of course,
like any show helmed by Abrams, the reason
why is shrouded in mystery and intrigue. It’s
up to a select few to battle unruly militia and
unforeseen forces to bring the world out of
darkness.

Animal Practice
Network: NBC
Premiere: Sept. 26, 8 p.m.

A

nimal Practice may be the sitcom with the
most to prove. The show will focus on
Dr. George Coleman (Justin Kirk), a New
York veterinarian whose eccentricities and
animal patients run amuck. This is until his exgirlfriend (Joanna Garcia-Swisher) inherits the
hospital. Also starring Tyler Labine and Bobby
Lee, Animal Practice is full of cult talent looking to burst into the mainstream.

The Mindy Project

Nashville

Network: FOX
Premiere: Sept. 25, 9:30 p.m.

Network: ABC
Premiere: Oct. 10, 10 p.m.

F

OX continues to build its stable of comedies with The
Mindy Project. Named for its star, the show follows a
doctor (Mindy Kaling) whose social and professional
life becoming increasingly intermingled. Anyone who
has become a fan of Kaling’s comedic styling on The Office may want to give this romantic comedy a spin.

The New Normal
Network: NBC
Premiere: Sept. 11, 9:30 p.m.

I

n the latest show from Ryan Murphy (Glee, American
Horror Story), The New Normal follows Bryan (Andrew
Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha), a couple looking
to start a family. They find help from Goldie (Georgia
King), a single parent who offers to become their surrogate. Murphy’s quirky characters and unique storytelling may give him a third hit this fall.

A

show that seems targeted exclusively to fans of
country music, Nashville seems to follow in the
footsteps of musical shows Glee and Smash. Connie Britton (American Horror Story) stars as a queen of
country battling for the spotlight with an auto-tuned
new starlet played by Hayden Panettiere (Heroes). For
those who prefer a country twang to their drama, this
may not be a bad choice.

Copper

666 Park Avenue

Go On

Network: BBC America
Premiere: Aug. 19, 10 p.m.

Network: ABC
Premiere: Sept. 17, 10 p.m.

T

he next supernatural thriller to hit our screens – and
set to compete with NBC’s Revolution – comes in
the form of a Manhattan apartment complex in 666
Park Avenue. The Drake building’s tenants and managers find all their desires strangely becoming reality, with
the question remaining of what building owner Gavin
Doran (Terry O’Quinn, Lost) has in store for them.

Network: NBC
Premiere: Sept. 11, 9 p.m.

T

he first original series from BBC America, Copper
follows Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) as he
returns from the Civil War in 1864. Corcoran becomes a police detective in New York City, only to find it
festering with criminals, booze and conflict. Promising
plenty of historical issues and content, Copper promises
a lot for fans of period pieces.

O

ne of several new NBC comedy series this fall, Go
On stars Friends alumnus Matthew Perry, as Ryan
King, a sportscaster who joins a support group after the death of his wife. What ensues, including a “who
has the better sob story” contest, aims to provide a level
of therapeutic laughter. Time will tell if Perry will finally
have his first post-Friends hit.

Features
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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TECHNICIAN

MLG returns to Raleigh, with money
Jordan Alsaqa

Raleigh events have seen in
the past. While MLG events
frequently pull in visitors
After two successful years, from out-of-state, the numit seems that Major League ber of nearby universities and
Gaming is ready to become a the strength of the local video
fall fixture in Raleigh. Start- game industry have helped
ing Friday, Aug. 24 and run- increase local awareness of
ning throughout the week- the event.
end, MLG will be back for
The out-of-state business,
round three in Raleigh.
meanwhile, is a boon to the
Another year means an- city, which is why Raleigh has
other chance for the event to continued to work with MLG
impress and entertain fans to provide hotel and restauof e-sports while also show- rant connections for visitors.
ing the city the growing le“The current estimate is
gitimacy of the professional that there will be a $2 milvideo game circuit.
lion direct impact to the RaIn the pursuit of this goal, leigh economy just based on
MLG has taken steps to pro- the event and various sales,”
vide new content and incen- Goldberg said.
tives for fans from all around
To achieve that estimate,
the state to come out. In par- MLG is providing new events
ticular, MLG has made the and features to fill the weekround held
end for fans
in Ra leig h
a nd br i ng
one of it s
back those
most imporwho have
tant compevisited MLG
titions of the
Ra leig h in
year.
the past.
“It’s a big
Those who
deal for us
attend this
to come back
year will be
to Raleigh,”
able to view
Katie Goldt he ac t ion
Katie Goldberg, VP of
Communications
berg, the vice
on four difpresident of
ferent stagcommunications for MLG, es, up from last year’s three.
said. “There are only four One stage will be dedicated
championships this year, and to fighting games like Mortal
we chose to have the summer Kombat and SoulCalibur V.
season end in Raleigh.”
Another will feature the popOne of the most important ular battle arena game League
factors in that decision was of Legends, which has grown
the heavy local traffic that the in popularity since its debut
Associate Features Editor

“The current
estimate is that
there will be a $2
million impact
to the Raleigh
economy.”

ALEX SANCHEZ/TECHNICIAN

Members of team Abnormal, Jessie Meacham and Leland Pascual, compete in a Call of Duty: Black Ops match at the Major
League Gaming Pro Circuit’s stop at the Raleigh Convention Center Aug. 26, 2011. Meacham, Pascual and their two other
teammates practice two hours a day online as a team.

as an official game last year.
StarCraft II, in keeping with
its status as one of the world’s
most well-known competitive video games, rounds
out the competition lineup.
Two stages will be dedicated
to the game, with competitors on the main stage once
again playing in soundproof
booths. League of Legends
players will also be playing
in the booths, allowing for
maximum concentration.
Beyond the competitive
games, the convention floor

will remain a place for attendees to soak in a bit of news
about the future of gaming,
as well as more than a few
items of sponsored swag.
“There will be tons of both
events and sponsors around
the center,” Goldberg said.
“The PlayStation booth will
be offering demos of upcoming games for attendees to try.
There will also be new products from MLG to try out and
buy, including game controllers and equipment.”
For those who may be un-

able to attend the event, MLG
continues to provide full
streaming of major matches
on its website. The enormous undertaking requires
a team constantly working
throughout the weekend,
but the streaming service
has bolstered the popularity
of Major League Gaming by
allowing fans to stay up on
how their favorite teams are
doing.
MLG remains an event very
much for the hardcore gamer,
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the event will be familiar to
anyone who’s been to a major
sports game. Though it’s far
from a mainstream event,
MLG Raleigh is quickly becoming an important event
for the city, which has continued to welcome the competition back each year.
With plans to make 2012
the biggest year yet for MLG,
the hope is to draw in and
entertain everyone from the
seasoned fan to the curious
newcomer this weekend.

Sports

TECHNICIAN

V-BALL

during the season because
the team is on the road a lot.
continued from page 8
However, each player makes
sure they bring textbooks to
There are four players in the away matches to study.
school, and each player is in a
“It’s important for us to get
different year in school.
all of our work done early, so
Freshman defensive spe- that way when it’s volleyball
cialist and libero Alex Taylor time, it’s volleyball time,”
said that she liked math and Micek said, who is in civil
science i n
engineering.
high school,
“W hen it’s
so it made
homework
sense to mat i m e , i t ’s
jor in chemihomework
cal engineertime.”
i ng. HowLi ke a ny
e v e r, s h e
aspiring enAlexa Micek, senior defensive
says the ulgineer, the
specialist and libero
timate push
qua r tet of
through the
engineering
door was from a friend who netters has post-collegiate
also played volleyball.
ambitions of becoming hired
“I sort of just followed in by well-known organizations.
her footsteps,” Taylor said.
Middle blocker Alesha WilSomething each player son, a senior in chemical enmentioned was the impor- gineering, is no different and
tance of time management. has set her sights high.
Senior defensive specialist
“I want to work for Apple
and libero Alexa Micek said and make cell phone screens
balancing school and vol- – indestructible cell phone
leyball can become difficult screens,” Wilson said. “Hope-

fully I will be on the iPhone
7 crew and make it happen.”
Although the players seem
to be balancing the volleyball
and engineering schedules
well, they still admit that it
can be difficult to handle at
times.
“I know I do more work
than everyone else on the
team, aside from the other
engineers, so it can be a little
difficult sometimes,” said
Richardson, who boasts a
3.9 GPA.
Despite the difficulties they
may run into, they all agree
that keeping an open line of
communication with their
professors is essential to their
success as students. According to Taylor, her older peers
have instructed her to do so,
along with a few other tips to
success.
“Actually reading the textbooks and knowing the material and, of course, study
really hard, which I’ve heard
a lot from them,” Taylor said.

“It’s important
for us to get all of
our work done
early.”

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Senior defensive specialist and libero Alexa Micek dives for a
dig during a match at Reynolds Coliseum. Micek is majoring
in civil engineering.

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“It’s crazy in Europe,”
Hill said. “Track is a
much bigger deal than
it is over here. It’s on all
of the sports channels.
You hardly ever see it on
SportsCenter here, but
it’s on all of the sports
channels there. It’s one
of the biggest events in
the world. You just get a
sense of that over there in
Europe.”
Hill said he wants to
return to Europe in the
future to compete on the
international stage.
“Hopefully I’ll do it next
summer and summers after that as a post-collegiate
runner,” Hill said. “It’s not
going to be a new experience for me. It definitely
took some time to get used
to it, so I won’t have to go
through that again as far
as being really tired over
there. When you get there
you have to make sure
you’re resting.”

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TECHNICIAN

FOOTBALL

Former golfers garner
top-5 finishes on PGA Tour

Counting down to the Vols

Former N.C. State golfers Tim Clark
and Carl Pettersson took home
top-5 finishes at the Wyndham
Championship, which ended Monday,
in Greensboro, N.C. Clark finished
second while Pettersson tied for
fourth. Clark fell short of the win by
two strokes, finishing 16 under par for
the tournament. Petterrson finished
two shots behind Clark at 14 under.
Pettersson also finished third at the
PGA Championship in Kiawah Island,
S.C., the previous weekend.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Men’s tennis
releases schedule

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The men’s tennis program has released
its schedule for the 2012-13 season.
N.C. State finished with a 20-10 overall
record last season and clinched a berth
in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth
time in school history. The Pack will
take on 15 ranked opponents from
last season. It will open its season by
hosting a tournament Sept. 1-3.

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season opener against the Tennessee
Volunteers at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff
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SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

The preseason has been an eventful one for the Pack,
including the departure of Tyler Brosius, return of
sophomore running back Mustafa Greene, redshirt
sophomore Bryan Underwood undergoing surgery and
multiple members of the team sitting out of practice
due to academic issues.

Women’s tennis
schedule released
Women’s tennis also released its
2012-13 schedule. Six of its scheduled
opponents were in the final top-25 ITA
poll last season. The team will open
its schedule at the Southern Shootout
in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21-23. The Pack
will host East Carolina for its first dual
match play event Jan. 31.

Going into the game, head coach Tom O’Brien and
company still have many questions on the table that
will be answered by the end of game preparation. Will
graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon and junior
cornerback David Amerson be able to duplicate the
breakout success they enjoyed last season? Also, with
targets that don’t have a significant amount of in-game
experience, who will step up at the wide receiver position? The linebacking core also faces the same conundrum. With the kickoff of the 2012 season looming,
O’Brien and the coaching staff have a number questions
that will be or must be answered on the practice field at
Dail Complex before stepping into the Georgia Dome.

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A

fter the outdoor track
and field season in
the United States–a
season that included winning
the ACC Men’s Cross Country Championship and being
named an All-American–senior distance runner Ryan Hill
continued his dominance across
the Atlantic this summer. Hill
achieved personal bests and a
Wolfpack record in Ireland and
the Netherlands.
“I know in the summer postcollegiate, professional runners
and Olympians go over to Europe and run the circuit, because
it’s a really well-run race,” Hill
said. “The best in the world go
over there. Since I didn’t have
any cross country left, and I
CONTRIBUTED BY N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
wasn’t training hard for cross Senior track and field runner Ryan Hill competes in ACC action. Hill broke
country, I decided to extend the several of his own school records this summer while competing in Europe.
track season and try to run some
faster times.”
the Morton Games in Dublin, Ire- ally fast because everyone is really
Hill set the school record for land, with a time of 3:56.78. Hill good there.”
the 1,500-meter as a freshman took home fifth place in the race,
Prior to going abroad, Hill also
and broke his own record sev- as all of the runners finished with broke his own school record of
eral times over
a sub-four-minute 13:31.67 in the 5,000-meter event
his career. In
time. He had pre- at the Olympic trials. Hill fell just
his latest reviously broken the short of making the team, taking
cord-breaking
N.C. State record home a fifth-place finish with a
performance,
set by Jim Wilkins 13:27.49 time. He finished as the
he finished with
in 1973 with a time top collegiate performer.
a 3:38.36 time at
of 3:58.33.
“I broke a record in the 5K,
the KBC Night
“It was rea l ly which was really cool, and the 15
Ryan Hill,
of Athletics in
cool going over to [1,500-meter],” Hill said. “I just
senior distance runner
Heusden, the
Europe,” Hill said. hung on with a really good field and
Netherlands,
“It’s something that had my best races.”
July 7. His previous best time no one from State has thought about
Hill said track and field is much
was 3:39.58 in Palo Alto, Calif.
doing. Me and one of the other guys more popular in Europe than in the
For his next feat, Hill broke went over there, got a house and did United States.
the four-minute-mile mark for some of the circuits over there. That
the second time in his career at was really cool. The races are all reTRACK continued page 7

“It’s something
that no one from
State has thought
about doing.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball
makes the
grade
Nolan Evans
Deputy Sports Editor

Nearly a quarter of N.C. State
undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in engineering. That number dips below 10
percent among student athletes
at the University.
As of the fall 2011 semester,
only 50 of the more than 500
student athletes at N.C. State
were listed as students in the
College of Engineering. With
the academic rigor of engineering and demanding schedules
that student athletes must work
around, it’s not shocking why the
statistics are unbalanced with
the University average.
However, some members of the
volleyball team seem to believe
that being a student athlete actually helps the academic process,
particularly with engineering.
“Being an athlete, you have
to balance your time, so it’s a
lot easier for us more than it is
for a lot of other engineers I talk
to,” junior middle blocker and
civil engineering major Meredith
Richardson said. “They spend
hours on stuff that took me only
an hour to do.”
Volleyball lays claim to the
most players on a team sport to
major in engineering at State.